Hello, There are obviously matters of taste here and I don't want to start a flame war, but IMO, bracketed-paste-mode should be off by default.
My argument is that Unix should come with the training wheels off, by default. The same reason `cp -i` or `mv -i` is not the default. If people want "safety" they can frob the per-user (or per-distro) settings. "Simple" and "obvious" seems more useful than "safe". "Standard is better than better." Changing the standard makes me cranky. (FWIW, It took a couple of months of being annoyed at my pastes not "working", after a major distro upgrade which installed a new readline, to get around to digging into why pasteing wasn't working. And then a good hour to find the problem, frob my systems' /etc/inputrc, write this bug report, etc.) Absent having bracketed paste off by default, it might be nice to have a /etc/inputrc.d/ directory that can have it's contents included by /etc/inputrc. That way there's not another config file that's different from the distro default that has to have changes merged on system upgrade. (On the third hand, yet more complication....) Regards, Karl <[email protected]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
